Love is in the Air 2016 Guide (February 15 - February 29)

Ah, Amore nell'Aria in the World of Warcraft: sweet flowers, perfume, and sharing gifts with loved ones! But, what's this? A sinister plot is afoot involving some shady goblin newcomers to the seasonal market--the Crown Chemical Company! It's up to us to help save Azeroth from their chemically altered goods all while spreading love and appreciation to our faction leaders and fellow players!

The Crown Company now drops ilvl 670 necklaces which have a special on-use effect that grant Potrebbe salvarti la vita. Amore eterno is also much easier to complete and does not require a large group.

Quests

As many of you may remember, the Amore nell'Aria event was completely redone in 2010, and there are now quests (including daily quests) players can complete to obtain Emblema d'Amore used to purchase holiday items like Struzzo Rosa Rapido. Unfortunately these questlines have not been updated for several years.

Daily: Sample Crown Company Products

The Crown Chemical Company would like for you to share their new products with the denizens of Azeroth to help establish their role as a new provider of quality holiday goods. One of these three daily quests will be randomly available each day of the event from Addetto alle Pubbliche Relazioni.

Those hearts you're seeing everywhere are the result of players who have sampled one of the Chemical Company's products--therefore, any quest item used on a player with a heart (and Soddisfazione Campione debuff) will not grant quest credit.

Daily: Crushing the Crown

The Steamwheedle Cartel need all the help they can get in eradicating the Crown Chemical Co. and their sinister plot. Players level 5 and higher can obtain a daily quest pitting them against mobs their level. The quest you get is dependent on your current level and your faction. For this daily, you must kill five of the Crown NPCs in the designated zone and use Bomba Korio di Catenaccio to destroy a nearby chemical wagon.

Daily: Gifts to Faction Leaders

In 2012, the complicated Gift Collections being gathered and presented to the respective faction leaders received a complete overhaul. Players now are asked to create and turn in Braccialetti Portafortuna Amorosis. These bracelets can be created by obtaining a Corredo da Collezionista di Portafortuna Amorosi, which you can get from Kwee Q. Peddlefeet located near the Crown Chemical Co.'s camp, found outside of auction houses in each of the major cities.

Once you have obtained Corredo da Collezionista di Portafortuna Amorosi, you will then be able to gather Portafortuna Amorosos from "worthwhile enemies"--any enemy you kill that is "honorable" (green or higher difficulty) has a chance to create a Portafortuna Amoroso. At this time, you must land the killing blow on the enemy in order to gain a charm. Combining 10 Portafortuna Amorosos will create a single Lovely Charm Bracelet, which, upon accepting a daily quest, can be turned in to the faction leader of your choice. You can turn in each of the four faction leader daily quests once per day for a total of 20 Emblema d'Amore.

Questline: Investigate the Crown Chemical Co.

A non-daily questline of the Amore nell'Aria event involves the Steamwheedle Cartel and this strange company known as the Crown Chemical Company. The Steamwheedle Cartel suspects there's something shady about these goblin newcomers, and investigators have been hired to get to the bottom of things. While this quest series does not award Emblema d'Amore, the final quest of this chain leads directly into the quest unlocking the daily quest to fight Speziale Hummel.

Furto di profumo or Furto di profumoStart & End:Investigatore Snap Catenaccio or Ispettore Snip CatenaccioFor this quest, the goblins will have you disguise yourself as a package runner for the Crown Chemical Co., and you must head outside either Orgrimmar or Roccavento where you'll find a stockpile of the Company's goods. Quickly run by it to have the Rifornimenti dei F.lli Corona handed off to you before they notice you aren't really on their side, and bring it back to the investigator. For Horde players, the parcels can be found to the left outside of Orgrimmar tucked away in a corner near the city wall. It's best to go find the parcel camps first before accepting the quest as the goblin disguise has only a 2 minute duration during which you are stuck sprinting on foot.

Boss: Apothecary Hummel

Once again, players will be able to access the event-only boss located in Forte di Zannascura--Apothecary Hummel!

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Players can queue up for the encounter by speaking to Steamwheedle Shyster, located in Roccavento or in Orgrimmar.

As usual for this holiday, players will be able to engage in a 5-man fight for the safety of Azeroth from this conniving trio of chemists! There are ilvl 635 necks as rewards, as well as tons of rare goodies such as the elusive Grande Razzo dell'Amore!

The first time you defeat Speziale Hummel, you will receive a Scatola a Forma di Cuore that contains the boss' "fun" items. This could include a fancy rose for your character's hair, a gas mask, a oozeling battle pet, or an item so powerful it can break your heart! You can get more than one of these items per box, but you can only get one box per character per day. You'll also receive 5-10 Emblema d'Amores.

Speziale Frye - Runs around throwing bottles of perfume and cologne on the ground, creating dangerous clouds where they land. He drops threat and basically just runs around wreaking havoc.

The fight is relatively simple and can be completed by a group with as few as two well-geared players. Simply have one person in your party "tank" Speziale Hummel, applying Neutralizzatore di Profumo to nullify the damage of his attacks and another player tank Speziale Baxter, using the Neutralizzatore di Colonia. Frye cannot be tanked and will spend the entire fight throwing cologne/perfume bottles and switching aggro. None of the apothecaries deal significant melee damage, and could probably be "tanked" by any class provided they're wearing the appropriate scent. They can also be stunned, so a rogue can probably keep the more annoying Speziale Frye stunlocked.

The other three players in your party can apply whichever scent they'd like, just being cautious to avoid opposite-colored clouds on the ground (they're actually somewhat difficult to see, and cause ridiculous damage if you stand in them). Players should also try to stay away from the opposite-colored boss, as Speziale Hummel and Speziale Baxter have a melee-range aura that can cause serious damage if you're in range too long. Also, "tanks" should face their apothecaries away from the rest of the group to avoid spraying them. If your poison or cologne buff runs out mid-fight simply use the item again to reapply the buff.

Throughout the fight, both Speziale Hummel and Speziale Baxter will start working at small alchemy labs they pull out of who knows where, eventually causing a Reazione a Catena which will hit anyone in the area. Also, Speziale Frenetico will spawn endlessly, running wildly for a few seconds before exploding in a Reazione Instabile dealing around damage to anybody nearby. These adds die upon exploding and cannot be tanked or controlled, so you'll probably end up getting hit a few times.

Kill all three of the apothecaries (in any order), and the loot can be found on the body of Speziale Hummel.

Seasonal Goodies

Most of the items required for seasonal achievements can be purchased from seasonal vendors, using Emblema d'Amore. This currency can be acquired through completion of Amore nell'Aria daily quests.

Prisma d'Amore Vero is new to 2015. It is a reward from Amore eterno, which requires a player to get 50 stacks of Raggio dell'Amore. This is acquired by players channeling Prisma d'Amore Artificiale onto the player who needs the achievement. This should be considerably easier to do in 2016, as the item has been changed to allow several players to zap each other over and over to get the stacks.

Achievements

Fool For Love Achievements

With each event comes seasonal achievements! For Love in the Air, there are 12 different challenges for players and a player title granted to those who can achieve them all--the Love Fool! Thankfully, many of these achievements are easy to get!

Le relazioni pericoloseAssist the Steamwheedle Cartel in stopping the sinister Crown Chemical Co. plot.For this achievement, you must complete one of the Crushing the Crown daily quests offered by Investigatore Snap Catenaccio in Orgrimmar or Ispettore Snip Catenaccio in Stormwind. There is a specific daily quest available to characters of every level range, with the lowest level quest being made available to players at least level 5 and the highest to players level 81 or above. This quest simply requires you to destroy a chemical wagon and kill five Crown Chemical Co. baddies found around it.

Alliance players must get completely smashed, use one of the seasonal perfumes, throw a Manciata di Petali di Rosa on Sraaz and then /kiss him. Sraaz wanders around the central Great Forge in Ironforge.

Obviously the best way to get completely smashed would be through massive consumption of Alcol Forte, but enough of any alcoholic beverage will do the trick. Simply drink to your heart's content until you receive the message that your character is smashed, and you're set. Bring your own alcohol in advance, as there's reports that Undercity doesn't sell any alcohol!

To get this achievement, players form a raid, stand in a circle, assign a skull to the person in the center who should be receiving all the rays, and channel the rays onto one person. When that person has the achievement, they step out of the center of the circle and a new person steps in. Be nice and don't leave the raid early!

Potrebbe salvarti la vitaUnleash the power of love contained within a holiday necklace.Use any of the ilvl 480 necks from Mists of Pandaria, or the upcoming ilvl 635 necks from the 2015 celebration to click on them and summon heart-shaped fireworks.

Defeat the Crown Chemical Company and win the necklace. You can pass the necklace around after you use it to others in your group, or repeatedly queue until you win a necklace.

The following chart shows what percentage of Wowhead users with Profiles have completed each achievement:

Commenti

Commento di Goovey

Commento di N0083rP00F

So like with the other events the only thing new is the grind for heirloom upgrades.

Ah well, maybe this year I will unpack that roman candle.

Commento di jglonek

on 2016-02-15T09:43:30-06:00

Do we know if they made any changes to Amore eterno to make it less ridiculous? I'm going to guess probably not. But hey, that achievement made me finally break my obsession with achievements last year, so there's a silver lining.

After about a hour got about 800~1000 charm and didnt click a single ability. Sorry blizzard, never meant to break your game !

Commento di jjanchan

on 2016-02-15T09:47:02-06:00

I didn't see this in the guide, though I may have missed it - do you have to be level 100 to queue for Apothecary Hummel this year?

Commento di Goovey

on 2016-02-15T10:04:24-06:00

Blizzard is gonna shove their giant boot up my ass for this but....

Found a way to auto grind this if you are a paladin.

Is that for a level 100 paladin?

Commento di Shauolin

on 2016-02-15T10:27:07-06:00

Blizzard is gonna shove their giant boot up my ass for this but....

Found a way to auto grind this if you are a paladin.

Is that for a level 100 paladin?

LVL 100 Paladin with dungeon set to HC

Commento di Maurvyn

on 2016-02-15T10:32:18-06:00

For the "They Really Love Me" achieve, the advice is " Be nice and don't leave the raid early.." It's like they don't even play this game.....

Commento di perculia

on 2016-02-15T10:32:29-06:00

Just updated the guide to reflect that the True Love Prism toy is now easier to get!

Commento di lexthor

on 2016-02-15T10:47:50-06:00

I'm hate this event because of need farm mount rocket... And each year his don't drop...

Commento di Joshmaul

on 2016-02-15T11:50:31-06:00

I believe they said last year that they wanted to, or were going to, or whatever, make the Vile Fumigator's Mask transmoggable; is that still a possibility, I wonder?

Commento di Robotusch

on 2016-02-15T12:04:49-06:00

Do we know if they made any changes to Amore eterno to make it less ridiculous? I'm going to guess probably not. But hey, that achievement made me finally break my obsession with achievements last year, so there's a silver lining.

They changed the Love Prism to now give a 5 minute buff and only have a 30 second cooldown. Way, way easier to complete the achievement now.

Commento di Gressie

on 2016-02-15T12:26:04-06:00

After many years i finnaly got the mount on my 7th try this year Kreygasm love rocket me snookie snookie

After about a hour got about 800~1000 charm and didnt click a single ability. Sorry blizzard, never meant to break your game !

Yea, this was well known last year.

Did it on my hunter.

Commento di Knetog

on 2016-02-15T13:54:31-06:00

Do we know if they made any changes to Amore eterno to make it less ridiculous? I'm going to guess probably not. But hey, that achievement made me finally break my obsession with achievements last year, so there's a silver lining.

They changed the Love Prism to now give a 5 minute buff and only have a 30 second cooldown. Way, way easier to complete the achievement now.

I did this the hard way last year, man that was a pain in the ass >.<

Commento di Iamme

on 2016-02-15T14:11:51-06:00

Dat prism achievement. I would suggest going with a pre-made..Those pugs in LFG are terrible for anyone who joins late.

Commento di Alecino

on 2016-02-15T14:20:07-06:00

Blizzard Designer: "What should we add new for this year"?Blizzard Employee: "Idk just throw in some Heirloom Upgrades, bc people love those"!: ........that's it?...

Commento di ken68m

on 2016-02-15T14:37:43-06:00

This gear is really crap and the drop rate on the rocket is so low I don't even feel like messing with this thing this year. Kazz is a cakewalk for a lvl 100 with no gear and drops a neck that is 41 levels higher...why bother if you have the achievements and stuff already?

Commento di barbasol

on 2016-02-15T15:27:38-06:00

Amore eterno is going to take 25 min for a group to achieve for all, right?

Am I computing this right:

Group of 5, each casts it 10 times on a single target. 30 sec cool down means 5 minutes per person = 25 min.Group of 25, each casts it 2 times on a single target. 30 sec cool down means 1 minute per person = 25 min..Group of 50, each casts it 1 times on a single target. 30 sec cool down means 2 targets per minute = 25 min.

Commento di sezz

on 2016-02-15T15:37:50-06:00

I'm hate this event because of need farm mount rocket... And each year his don't drop...